This winter, visitors to and locals of Cape Town and surrounding areas can look forward to laughing till they fall out of their seats at the Jive Cape Town Funny Festival at the Baxter Theatre in Rondebosch. If last year’s festival is anything to go by, audiences  can look forward to thoroughly entertaining evenings. 2014’s Funny Festival  featured an outstanding lineup that consisted of the best of South Africa’s comedy scene as well as from the international scene. Audiences were treated to the likes of Trevor Noah, Shaleen Surtie-Richards, Marc Lottering and Nik Rabinowitz. Comedic acts from abroad included German pickpocket legend Christian Lindemann, the comedic pianist from the UK, Kev Orkian and the multi-award winning Australian comedian, Felicity Ward. 2015’s Funny Festival boasts a stellar lineup that includes legends of the comedy scene both near and far and ensures a good chunk of the winter will have passed quickly before anyone actually notices. This comedy festival will take place from Monday, the 20th of July to Sunday, the 16th of August.

What can audiences look forward to at this year’s Funny Festival?

After over a decade since this event began, the festival is still going strong. Audiences can anticipate nearly daily performances from a colourful international lineup that not only includes some of the best comedians, such as Shimmy Isaacs, but additionally comedy music acts, like The Raymond and Mr Timpkins Review, and comedic clowns courtesy of Cirque du Soleil just to name a few.

The full lineup for the Funny Festival is as follows:

Now that you’ve seen the lineup…

There is much to look forward to at this festival, as you can see. If you are perhaps a first-time visitor to this festival, you will be pleased to know that besides the normal single ticket price, there are discount options for large groups.

Price and additional information

Single Ticket
R 150.00

For discounted block bookings, charities, corporate bookings and fundraisers, please make use of the following contact details:

Sharon Ward
Telephone – 021 680 3962
E-mail address – sharon.ward@uct.ac.za

Carmen Kearns
Telephone – 021 680 3993
E-mail – carmen.kearns@uct.ac.za

Take note that some of the performances have been fully booked already while others are not available yet for booking. Should a performance become available for booking, you will be able to find out by visiting the Computicket website. Below, are all the performances that are currently available as well as their starting times.

Address

Baxter Theatre Centre
Main Road
Rondebosch

Get your tickets today!

If you happened to miss it earlier, some of the performances are already sold out. While you may have plenty of options right now, you’d best get deciding on what date suits you since it’s a little over 2 months before the first performance and the amount of tickets getting sold will definitely increase as we come closer to the beginning of the festival.

Get your tickets secured and you will definitely have a thrilling and entertaining time at the Baxter Theatre during this winter in Cape Town.